Urban infill done well? Anyone who has ever dared venture into Munich’s suburbs knows that architectural quality is rarely a factor in space rededication and infill developments. But what about an environmentally friendly timber complex? In the project Hausfuchs the IFUB * demonstrates how you can, in fact, have infill, ecology, and top-quality architecture all under one roof (or under four roofs, to be precise).
With its figure of two interlocking cubes, the annex building for the administrative district office located not far from the early 18th-century town hall responds to the existing, very historical urban space. The articulation of its form through projections and recesses and its sculptural, tiered heights associate the building in a self-evident way with its immediate neighborhood and the winding lanes typical of the area, which often widen into small squares.
Situated on a steep, westerly slope, approximately 20m above sea level, below one of Eckernförde’s most popular residential streets, this residence enjoys one of the most stunning views over the bay and the open Baltic Sea.
Loft project in Berlin. The main objective of the project was to create a series of commercial images that would help to rent out the property in a profitable way. There was no clear specification for this project. The main thing was to create a stylish interior, to convey the loft atmosphere and show the benefits of the space.
The new headquarters of the global hotel search trivago is located in the Dusseldorf MedienHafen. To create an appropriate company headquarters for the international team from more than 50 countries, slapa oberholz pszczulny | sop architekten designed an urban campus that offers the highest quality to up to 2,000 employees.
The site is exposed at the foot of the harbour basin A on Kesselstraße and consists of two buildings and generous open spaces. The organically shaped structures open invitingly to the water and offer a playful balance at the intersection of the numerous building lines and edges of the MedienHafen.
Sop Team: Zbigniew Pszczulny, Wolfgang Marcour, Jascha Klusen, Eva Stach,Jana Beermann, Michael Knutti, Christian Litz, Frank Ostrowski,Marek Struski, Ismail Tanriverdi and others
Interior Design: raum.atelier, Goldemann-Sabbak and Hasiewicz Interior Design
In their design for the new head office and production site for Kirsch Pharma HealthCare GmbH in Wedemark, Germany, SAOTA rethinks the often underwhelming and generic industrial prototype.
The site of German‐based Kirsch Pharma HealthCare’s new factory and headquarters in Wedemark, Germany, is a somewhat anonymous industrial zone without distinctive contextual cues. South African‐based architectural firm SAOTA approached the project with the understanding that a meaningful architectural response to this environment would require a building that stood as a sculptural object in the landscape, making a strong architectural statement that imparted a sense of presence and identity in its own right.
In the Summer of 2008 UAU collective (before named SAQ) was approached by Design Hotels to aid in the creation of a proposal for an 80,000 sq. m. site comprised of 4 existing buildings and the addition of a 5th unifying building that could run throughout the complex composed of retail, hotel, cinema and office space. The project could not be a cut and paste of existing programmatic standards but instead had to integrate new concepts for retail, hotel and office space. This called for a heavily integrated team of experts for hotel (Design hotels), retail (Axel Weber and Partners), and architecture (UAU collectiv). UAU collectiv (SAQ) was responsible for the overall masterplan, the architecture as the realization of the interior of the common spaces. The realization on site is carried out by the Munich architectural firm Hild und K, which is specialised in construction work on existing buildings. Hild und K have combined the innovative design by UAU collective (SAQ) with the given conditions of the listed existing buildings and thereby made it feasible.
Article source: ANDREAS SCHÜRING M.A. ARCHITEKT BDA
With the basic idea of order and freedom, the new library of the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Cologne-Deutz manages to offer a high degree of adaptability and a large variety of levels of transparency on its 700 m². With its bright, open and inviting character, it is an attractive flagship of the university with around 2500 students.
Through the interweaving of highly transparent learning cubes and light acoustic curtains that can be adjusted as required, it functions as a complex structured one-room under an apparently limitless, all-connecting light ceiling.
Studio Alexander Fehre was asked to design an office world for the new headquarters of Bosch Automotive Steering. The new building was originally constructed for predecessor ZF Lenksysteme, who wanted a building with emblematic character. Following the takeover by Bosch, a new direction was chosen for the site and the headquarters were repurposed as a development campus. SAF was asked to illustrate this process of change by redesigning the interior space with a focus on inviting, open-plan spaces in place of traditional office structures, and an inspiring colour world instead of sharp, black and white contrasts.
London, Berlin, New York: Creative minds have always tended to gravitate towards big cities. With the new headquarters of Roman Klis Design, however, this could be set to change, because ‘the Maldives of design’ are in Herrenberg, a provincial town in southwest Germany. Ippolito Fleitz Group cooperated with Porsche Consulting in transforming the globally operative brand design agency into a ‘New Work’ office, successfully remodelling the workplace into a locus of desire. The transformation brought together the agency’s brand identity, insights from behavioural science and our ambition to provide a smart solution to every challenge. The new office is not only a pleasure to behold – it makes a substantial contribution to boosting the productivity of the agency’s workforce.
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